Materials Science
New tests of nanostructured material could lead to better armor against everything from gunfire to micrometeorites.
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There has been great advancements in the development of the high-strength steel and the need for additional enhancements continue to grow.
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A South American butterfly flapped its wings, and caused a flurry of nanotechnology research to happen in Ohio.
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A new type of nanoscale molecular trap makes it possible for industry to store large amounts of hydrogen in small fuel cells or capture, compact and remove volatile radioactive gas from spent nuclear fuel in an affordable, easily commercialized way.
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"Avalanches" -- the crackling behavior of materials under slowly increasing stress, like crumpling paper or earthquakes -- may have a novel facet previously unknown, say Cornell researchers.
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The study of materials at extreme conditions took a giant leap forward with the discovery of a way to generate super high pressures without using shock waves whose accompanying heat turns solids to liquid.
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A team of researchers from the University of Florida department of chemistry has developed a new technique for growing new materials from nanorods.
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists and collaborators are developing a new military uniform material that repels chemical and biological agents using a novel carbon nanotube fabric.
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A team of researchers has succeeded in creating a defect in the structure of a single-layer crystal by simply inserting an extra particle, and then watching as the crystal “heals” itself.
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A coating so thin it’s invisible to the human eye has been shown to make copper nearly 100 times more resistant to corrosion.
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A team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Ho Nyung Lee has discovered a strain relaxation phenomenon in cobaltites that has eluded researchers for decades.
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Krishna Rajan of Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory thinks there’s more to materials informatics than plotting a thick cloud of colorful data points.
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